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Guitar Styles with StyleMaker 44 Importing Instruments from Other Styles 46 Trim Patterns 47 CHAPTER 10: AUDIO FEATURES ENHANCEMENTS Audio Edit Window Overview 48 Direct X Plugins 49 Save as Windows Media File 50 Burn your own Audio-CD 51 CHAPTER 11 : OTHER NEW FEATURES 54 SPACEBAR Functions 54 Half-Speed Functions 54 Copy/ Paste for Single Chord Cell 54 Song Memo Enhancements 55 Merge Imported Data with Melody 55 Play Style Demo 55 Song List Window Key Support 55 Brushes Remap
Styles Disk #25: ‘Vintage Jazz’ 63 Styles Disk #26: ‘Classic Country’ 68 PG MUSIC INC. CONTACT INFO 72 PG MUSIC INC.
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION This documentation covers the new features in Band-in-a-Box Version 10. 9 Chapter 2 is a summary of the new features. 9 Chapter 3 is a Quick-Start Tutorial. 9 Chapters 4-11 and Appendix A describe the new features in detail. The latest version of Band-in-a-Box adds 50 more features. First off, you'll get 'guitar styles' – styles that play and show strummed and picked guitar parts accurately on the guitar fretboard, using your choice of pop, jazz, country, or folk guitar chording.
Chapter 2: Summary of New Features The New Features in Band-in-a-Box Version 10 are ... • Guitar Styles – Would you like to hear some realistic, accurate MIDI guitar from Band-in-a-Box styles, with strumming, picking, and accurate fret fingering? You'll get them with Version 10 : 'Guitar Styles' are styles that show strummed and picked guitar parts accurately on the guitar fretboard (and they sound great.
live music situation, perhaps to enhance a live vocal performance or when you're having a jam session. • Chord Preview/Builder - Now you can right-click on any chord to instantly hear how it sounds, or use the "Chord Builder" feature to audition different chords until you find the one that sounds best to you. In other words, you can enter chords "by ear" --without having to know the actual chord names or any music theory. This feature also illustrates the differences between various chord types.
• Printing Enhancements - The new Print-Preview feature allows you to preview what printed pages will look like by displaying them onscreen. You can also Print the pages to a graphics file, saving them in the popular JPG, TIF or BMP file types. Printing your composition to a graphics file allows you to embed your notation in a document (e.g. PDF), or an HTML file for use on your Website. You can select the pixel resolution for the bitmap for complete control over the size and quality of the graphic.
- Six Channel Guitar files - MIDI guitar performances for Rock or Country involving bends and slides sound best when output on 6 MIDI channels at once (i.e. a separate channel for each string). This mode is fully supported in Version 10 so that these types of files can be played back perfectly. The "Master Country Guitar Solos" files are good examples of the need for this feature.
• … and more! Chapter 3: Quick-Start Tutorial Quick-Start Tutorial For Version 10 Upgrade The full description of the new features in Version 10 of Band-in-a-Box are provided elsewhere. This tutorial is a quick-start tour of the new features in Version 10. Band-in-a-Box: Overview It is assumed that you are somewhat familiar with the previous release of Band-in-a-Box.
The Burn CD icon (visible only at 1024x768 or higher) launches the Render Dialog, which then allows you to save your Band-in-a-Box composition to an audio CD (if you have a CDR or CDRW drive). This button launches the Memo Window. The Memo Window has been enhanced, stays open on the screen, and is sizable.
The Harmony Menu has new items as shown here: Use Passing Harmonies for THRU: In previous versions when you played along on a MIDI keyboard (or the wizard), and used a THRU Harmony, the harmonies would all be based on chord tones, now you can use passing harmonies. For example, on a C7 chord, with an Ab note, the harmony might be a B diminished chord, which is a passing harmony. Only Harmonize if Note Held Down: In previous versions, every note that you played on the THRU Harmony would get harmonized.
The Not'n menu has new items for the Audio Edit Window: The Audio Edit Window allows you to edit audio data, using copy, cut and paste. You can zoom the audio in to the sample level so that you can see the actual sine waves present. See next illustration for an example of an Audio Edit window containing Digital Audio (wave) data. (Note the highlighted (black) section indicating the section that will be edited).
The Print dialog now has an option to view a Print Preview: Another new option on the Print Options Dialog, called "Include Staff Lines", will print a chords only leadsheet --without staff lines. StyleMaker Enhancements Let's now briefly turn our attention towards a few of the new StyleMaker enhancements. These enhancements are of interest mostly to people who make their own styles, so you can skip this section if you aren't planning on making your own styles.
The Guitar Macros dialog allows you to specify what kinds of guitar chords you'd like to use (for intelligent guitar styles). The Allow Late Notes dialog controls what happens to notes that occur near the end of a pattern (you can reduce the volume of them with this dialog). The Options Dialog for the Piano, Guitar and Strings has options to set the pattern to be a Guitar Pattern and a Guitar Options dialog to override the general Guitar Settings.
Turn the tutor 'off' by disabling the "Enable Chord Tutor Display" setting. Let's Examine the Intelligent Guitar Styles Load in the song !Freddie.MGU from the 'Styles 24' folder. This is a demo song for the style !Freddie.STY. The exclamation point (!) in the name of a style is a convention to indicate that the style is an 'intelligent guitar style'. This means that the patterns on the guitar part will play with correct and guitar voicings on the fretboard. Play the !Freddie.
Remember that for any style you see with an exclamation point (!) in the style name (an intelligent guitar style) you can view and hear the guitar part played on the guitar fretboard, as described above. Let's Look at the Chord Substitution Dialog Continuing with the song !Freddie.MGU, the tune begins with an F7 chord for 8 beats. Let's make that part a little more interesting by trying some substitutions for that chord. First, press with the highlight bar on bar 1.
There are a number of substitutions that have been identified. For example, the first substitution replaces the 2 bars of F7 with a "Cm7 F7" progression. But the program has also looked at the Melody of this song (which contains an 'A' note) and commented in the Memo that this 'A' melody note is not compatible with the 'Cm7', so doesn't advise this substitution. Choose one of the substitutions that you would like, and press the Do Substitution NOW button (or double click on the substitution).
You can now click on the root of the chord (in the 'Root' Group), the Extension (Maj7 etc.), and also an alternate "slash-note" root. For example, to make the chord F9/A, you would click on the 'F' root, the '9' extension, and the Slash Root of /A. As you click on them, you'll hear the bass note played on the Bass part, and the extension played on the Piano track. If you are happy with the sound of the chord, you can press the 'ENTER CHORD' button, that enters the chord at the bar and beat specified.
Exploring the Ear Training Window To launch the Ear Training Window, click on the Ear Training button, (or press Ctrl-Shift-J, or menu item User-Ear Training). There are 2 modules in the Ear Training Window: 1.) The Chord Tutor plays chords (root + extension) for you to identify. 2.) The Interval Tutor plays note intervals for you to identify. Click on the Chord Tutor button to ensure that the Chord Tutor module is displayed.
When you think you know the root, press the root name on the list of note names at the left. If you guess incorrectly, you'll see a message that says "Wrong Root". You'll then hear the note that you guessed playing, followed by the root-to-guess note again. If you guess correctly, you'll see a confirmation of that, and can play again. Press the STOP button to stop the game. Let's guess Root and Extensions. The Guess a New Chord game works in the same way, except that you are guessing chord extensions.
First, open up the notation window and make sure you have the Melody track highlighted by pressing the 'M' button. Press the PRINT button, and then the Print-Preview button. You'll then see a Print Preview of the page. You can print it out by pressing CLOSE and then OKPRINT. In this case we want to save it as a graphics file. To do this, press the SAVE button (if there is only 1 page) or SAVE RANGE (if there is more than 1 page).
Here's how the !Freddie.MGU file looks like saved as a B/W (black and white) BMP (Windows bitmap file) from Band-in-a-Box and imported into MS Word.
Let's check out Styles Disk #24 Note: Styles Disk #24: If you ordered Band-in-a-Box 10 as an upgrade, the package includes Styles Disk #24. (This is not one of the styles disks that is included in the first time purchase unless you order the MEGAPAK.) If you have the first time version of Band-in-a-Box and don't have a \bb\styles24 directory, instead use the \BB\SOLODEMO directory of BB for this example. To try out the new styles from Styles Disk #24, press the OPEN button and load in a song (e.g.
Chapter 4: Guitar Styles Features Overview Guitar Styles • Guitar Styles – Would you like to hear some realistic, accurate MIDI guitar from Band-in-a-Box styles, with strumming, picking, and accurate fret fingering? You'll get them with Version 10 : 'Guitar Styles' are styles that show strummed and picked guitar parts accurately on the guitar fretboard (and they sound great). These styles also play accurate guitar voicings, in your choice of pop, jazz, country or folk guitar chording.
channel, so that it only uses 1 channel. When you make a MIDI file, the notes will all get written on the single guitar channel. Some other sequencers (e.g., PowerTracks) will recognize guitar parts on all 6 channels, so if you want to write the MIDI file from an intelligent guitar style, you can set Band-in-a-Box to do this from the Options | Preferences… | Write Guitar part on 6 channels option.
The Tutor part uses the MIDI THRU part to playback on. You can control volume, panning, etc. by using the THRU settings at the top of the main Band-in-a-Box screen. You can select the patch to use from directly in the Tutor dialog. The tutor will display jazz, pop and folk voicings --in easy, medium and advanced forms. The advanced forms use inversions, and changing patterns of chords, while the easier ones just stick to the common "campfire" chords.
so that these types of files can be played back perfectly. The "Master Country Guitar Solos" files are examples of this feature put to good use. Remember that the only file that requires to be output on 6 channels would be a MIDI guitar part that was recorded with separate pitch bend information on 6 channels. If you have such a file, you can import the 6 channels into Band-in-a-Box (using Melody | Import).
Chapter 5: Chord Substitution Features • Chord Substitution Wizards - Reharmonizing a song with the new "Chord Substitution Wizard" is a fun and educational way to perform or practice a familiar song in a brand new way. This feature is very easy to use; simply highlight an area of chords and select 'Chord Substitution'. The possible chord substitutions are instantly displayed for you.
shown are for an F7 chord. The substitutions shown may work for up to 4 bars, depending on the substitution. In the examples above, the substitutions work for 2 bars. You can control what types of substitutions to see by using the Jazz/Pop checkbox. Some substitutions include more chords than the original, and some simplify the progression, and these can be viewed using the checkboxes. You can elect to exclude substitutions that have a chord on each beat.
You can see that Band-in-a-Box chose the substitutions for about 70% of the chords in the song (that's what we told it to do in the dialog). It began by replacing the F7 chord with a Cm7 F9 progression. Some of the substitutions chosen are more advanced than that (replacing an F7 with a B13 for example).
Chord Builder This feature allows you to hear and build chords up by clicking on the root, extension (and alternate root if applicable). You can launch the Builder by pressing the Builder button or right-clicking on the chord sheet and pressing the Builder button (or by choosing the User | Chord Builder menu option). You'll then see the following Chord Builder dialog: You can now click on the root of the chord (in the 'Root' Group), the Extension (Maj7 etc.), and also an alternate "slash-note" root.
Chapter 6: Ear Training Window • Ear Training Window - Ear training is an important exercise for all musicians. Now you can practice your ear training with help from Version 10. In addition to the common interval exercises (perfect 4th, minor 2nd , etc.), learning to 'play-by-ear' for jazz and pop music is further enhanced by ear training exercises to recognize common chord types (e.g., Major, Minor, Dominant, etc.).
Chord Tutor There are 2 modules in the Ear Training Window: The Chord Tutor plays chords (root + extension) for you to identify. The Interval Tutor plays note intervals for you to identify. Click on the Chord Tutor button to ensure that the Chord Tutor module is displayed. Press the Play Tonic button to familiarize yourself with the root note of the scale as a reference point. Click on any of the other note names to hear that root. Click on any of the chord extensions to hear that sound.
Press the STOP button to stop the game. Now Let's guess the Root and the Extensions. The Guess a New Chord game works in the same way as the 'Root' game, except that here you are guessing chord extensions. The root is always the same, whatever the setting is at the left. Click on the extension to guess, and "Replay Chord" to hear the chord again. In this mode, you need to guess both the Root and the Extension. You can guess them in any order.
The chord extension will be played using the voicing type that you specify in the voicing types combo box. These can be open, closed, or root position voicings. This setting also applies to the voicing used when you are previewing a chord. If you are an advanced musician, seeing the notes on the piano during the guessing game would be "cheating", since you'd probably quickly recognize the chord. However, a beginner might benefit from seeing the notes played on the piano screen.
Interval Tutor Click on the Interval Tutor button to launch the Interval Tutor module: This window works much like the Chord Tutor window, except that this time you are guessing intervals. Click on the intervals to hear them. For example, click on "Minor 3" to hear a minor 3rd interval. Start the game by pressing the Guess Interval button. Then, click on the interval that you think is being played. You can control the starting note and the second note by the various settings in the dialog.
Chapter 7: Live Harmonies • Live Harmony Enhancements - Playing along to a song on a MIDI keyboard using harmonies has just got better. Version 10 offers passing harmonies (chromatic, diatonic and dominant 7), so that the harmonized voices will smoothly lead to the next note. You can even control exactly which notes to harmonize: if you hold down a predetermined MIDI note with your left hand a harmony will play, otherwise it will just be a single note.
Live Harmonies while Band-in-a-Box is Stopped Normally, the Live Harmony feature is not active when Band-in-a-Box is stopped, but you can in fact use the Live Harmony even while a song is not playing. You need only to open the "Harmony | Real Time Harmonies" dialog. Note that this dialog must remain open for this feature to be active. When this dialog (shown above) is open, you can play a chord in the Left hand (below the split point set in the dialog) and the chord you play is displayed in the dialog.
Chapter 8: Notation & Printing • Notation Enhancements - When a note is dragged up or down using the mouse, the notes sound chromatically (every semitone). This feature allows you to hear the note as you move it and makes it easy to find the note your looking for. There's also an on-screen ZOOM button to easily increase or decrease the font size of the notation. Other enhancements include copying and pasting of the melody notation with simple mouse highlighting procedures.
You can change the location to paste to in the Edit | Paste dialog. • Printing Enhancements - The new Print Preview feature allows you to preview what the printed pages will look like by displaying them onscreen. You can also Print the pages to a graphics file, saving them in the popular JPG, TIF or BMP file types. Printing your composition to a graphics file allows you to embed your notation in a document (e.g. PDF), or an HTML file for use on your website.
You can quickly set the pixel settings to popular settings by pressing the "Screen Width" and "Full Page" buttons. Printing from the Print Preview You can print the page(s) by pressing CLOSE and then PRINT. Saving the page(s) as Graphics files The SAVE button saves the current page as a Graphics file (BMP, JPG, TIF, PCX). The SAVE RANGE button saves all of the pages to graphics files, with titles named SONGNAMEXXX.BMP, where XXX is the page number.
Chapter 9: StyleMaker Enhancements Guitar Styles with StyleMaker • Guitar Styles with incredible authenticity are now possible in the StyleMaker. You can use new macro notes to be played back as a jazz, folk or pop guitar chord --using correct fret positions for accurate guitar-friendly chords. You can also specify what type of guitar patterns (walking guitar bass lines) and chord complexities (inversions, etc.) to use, as well as picking patterns and strumming speed.
7. When the recording of the pattern finishes, set "OK to use Macros" and "Guitar Macros" to Yes. You don't need to set any Guitar Options, unless you want to override the settings already made in the MISC dialog, for this pattern only. 8. Save the style, using the convention of putting an exclamation (!) somewhere in the name (e.g., as the first character in the filename), to indicate that it is an intelligent guitar style.
G5 F5 Plays high E string. Plays high E string, but if none available will play G string. Additional notes for fingerpicking, not part of chord G3 Fifth below the low root of the chord for fingerpicking. E4 Fifth or 3rd above the low root for fingerpicking. For example, if you want a simple 4-in-the-bar pattern that plays a slow-fast-slowfast strumming pattern, play the notes C6 D6 C6 D6 for the pattern.
Trim Patterns • There's a new option to trim all of the patterns on any given row or instrument. The trim pattern dialog now has the options to trim the single pattern, whole row, and all rows. • There's another new option which helps avoid playing a bunch of notes near the end of a pattern, thus avoiding a "too-busy" sounding pattern. The late note is accessed from the MISC dialog in the StyleMaker by pressing the Late Note button.
Chapter 10: Audio Features Enhancements Audio Edit Window Overview • Audio Feature Enhancements - the new Audio Edit Window allows you to visually see a Digital Waveform, and select, preview, and edit pieces of audio with simple cut and paste commands. Launch the Audio Edit Window by the Audio | Audio Edit Window menu item or pressing Ctrl-Shift-A. The Audio Edit Window allows you to edit audio data, using copy, cut and paste. The '-' and '+' buttons zoom out and in to the audio window.
Direct X Plugins • There is also support for DirectX Audio plugins – so you can apply your favorite DirectX plugin to the digital audio track. There are many shareware and freeware DirectX plugins available on the Internet in addition to the hundreds of commercially available DirectX plugins offered by top DSP companies. To process a WAV track with a DirectX plugin, choose Audio | Plugins | DirectX plugin. Apply DirectX Audio Plugins (or more precisely, "Audio Transform Filters") to a track.
Update feature in the Start menu. As of the writing of this document, DirectX Version 7.0a was the most recent publicly available download. There are many places on the web to look for DirectX audio plugins. Try a keyword search on DirectX Audio to get started. • Rendered audio files now have the option to include a 'count-in', and the size of a rendered file is displayed onscreen. To set this option, on the Render Audio Dialog set the option to "include a countin" in the rendered file.
There are options to save the file to a specific filename and destination folder, to select a resolution (quality) for the file, and even a space to fill in the appropriate Title, Author, Copyright, and Song Description credits. This information will be embedded into the resulting WMA file and will be viewable when the file is played in an appropriate Mediaplayer. In the preceding example we chose 20Kbps, since we want the file to 'stream' well even on 28.8K modem connections (i.e.
option, but the CD won't be playable in an audio CD player until the disc is "Finalized". Therefor, make sure that when you burn the CD for the last time the disc is finalized. Details Clearburnlist Button - Press this button if you want to quickly clear the current "BURNLIST". Checkburner Button - Use this button to double-check your burner to ensure it's ready to go! Cache SLIDER - The Cache Setting determines how much memory to use for buffering while burning.
Finalize (make playable CD) checkbox (default is true) - changes BURN CDbutton. Enable this checkbox if you would like to close the session off on your CD so that it can be played back in any Audio CD-Player. Disable this setting if you would like to keep adding files to this disc without closing off the session. Test Mode (simulate burn) checkbox (default is false) - enable this checkbox to 'testburn' a CD (i.e., to ensure that your burner setup is working correctly.
Chapter 11 : Other New Features SPACEBAR Functions • Pressing the SPACEBAR now starts and stops the song from the current position. This is optional, the program defaults to working "the old way". You can set this in Options | Prefs 2. If you would like the SPACEBAR to start the song from the current position, choose Options | Prefs2 | SPACEBAR Key | Plays from current position (as shown here).
Song Memo Enhancements • The Song Memo Window can now remain open on the screen throughout the session. This window is also sizable, and remembers its position on the screen for the next session. Merge Imported Data with Melody • When importing a MIDI file to the Melody track, there is now an option to merge the data with the existing track. On the Melody – Import from MIDI file dialog, you can now select the "Merge With Existing Data on track" option.
Turn Local On at End • There is now the option to 'turn local back on' when you leave the program, so that your MIDI keyboard can be heard. Normally while using Band-in-a-Box the "local-off" setting for your MIDI keyboard is best, since the THRU part will be coming from Band-in-a-Box and you don't want to hear your MIDI keyboard doubling the notes that are being played. However, when you exit Band-in-a-Box, you might want the "Local on" setting for your synthesizer turned back on.
Appendix A: Styles Disks #24, #25, #26 Styles Disks #0-23 are documented in the main (full) Band-in-Box manual. Styles Disk #24 is included with an upgrade package to Version 10 of the Band-in-a-Box program (not included with first-time purchase of the program). Styles Disks 0-3 are included with the Pro version of Band-in-a-Box. Other Styles Disks are sold separately as add-ons to Band-in-a-Box.
from. This will replace all the String patterns with empty patterns. You can then save the style with your own style name. If the style is a ¾ waltz, you would use the BLANK34.STY. Of course, you can mute any of the instruments at any time if you want to thin out the sound. Just right click on the instrument(s) to mute it for the whole tune. Or to selectively mute instruments, right click on any bar, and make your selection. Then you can select the range of bars to be muted using Edit | Copy Rests .
Memo: This ¾ waltz style has NO patterns in it. It is useful for times when you would like to modify a ¾ style by deleting an instrument. For example, if you would prefer not to have strings on a 3/4 style, you can edit the style in the Stylemaker (Ctrl-Shift-F9), select the Strings, then, from the Style menu,| Import instrument from style. You would then choose the BLANK34.STY style to import from. This will replace all the String patterns with empty patterns.
CUPID!.STY Cupid - 60s Straight 8th bouncy Pop Memo: This style features the bouncy Pop-Rock style common to the 60s. 5 instruments: el. piano2, bass, drums, strat!, organ. At 'b', organ chords and fills, cowbell, more intense. Tempo = 145 Examples: Venus, It's My Party FLUTHER!.STY Fluther - Celtic 2-beat bounce Memo: This medium-tempo bouncy Irish style features 5 instruments: piano, bass, drums, guitar!, accordion. '!' indicates guitar style uses intelligent guitar voicings.
J!EDLNG2.STY Jazz - EdLang2 - var - 40s swing rhythm guitar! Memo: This variation of J!EdLang.sty mixes the Fr. Green & Pop/Barre chord voicings for a fuller sound. Guitar only at 'a'. Ac. Bass at 'b'. Tempo = 115 Examples: You Made Me Love You, any medium Swing J!FGREE2.STY Jazz - Freddie Green2 - rhythm guitar! (var.) Memo: This variation of J!Fgreen.sty features 3-note rhythm chords. Bass is in '2' at 'a' and in '4' at 'b'. 2 instruments: - acoustic guitar! & bass.
Memo: This is a slow 50s Pop 12/8 style w/ acoustic piano & Nyl. Guitar! in triplets. Very simple bass & brushes. '!'= smart guitar voicings, '~'= brushes. 5 instruments: piano, bass, d-br, guitar!, str. Tempo = 62 Examples: Memories, Impossible Dream SHOWFAST.STY Show Fast - Fast show tunes Memo: Fast 2-beat (cut-time) style for Broadway show tunes. Also 2 similar styles, ShwFst2! & ShoFst3!, which add more insts. 3 instruments: Pno, bass & drs.
Styles Disk #25: ‘Vintage Jazz’ Introduction and Overview Styles Disk #25 = 28 classic ‘Vintage Jazz’ styles for Band-in-a-Box. Note: As these styles use some of the newer Stylemaker features, you must have Band-in-a-Box Version 10 (or higher) for these styles to work properly. Over 20 great new styles from the vintage Jazz sounds of the 30s, 40s & 50s – in the style of groups like Hoagy, Satch, TeddyW, BennyG, Nat, Fredy, Brubeck, New Orleans Trad, HMancini, Silver, Hirt, PPrado and more.
J!~BENNY.STY Vintage Jazz - Benny - fast 30s swing Memo: 30s fast sw. ala Benny G quintet w/ brushes (~) & 'intelligent' guitar. voicings (!). 5 instruments: piano (stride - w/fills), bass (in 2, 4 at 'b'), drumsbrushes, acoustic guitar!, vibes (bg pad chords). T=260 Examples: Indiana, Avalon J!~CLUB.STY Vintage Jazz - Club - 30s, 40s swing Ballad Memo: Slow 30s & 40s Club-style swing. ballad with relaxed piano stride & rhythm guitar. 4 instruments: piano, bass, drums. g.
J!~SKY2.STY Vintage Jazz - Sky2 - 30s/40s bounce variation Memo: Variation of J!~Sky.sty-this one has organ at 'b'. 5 instruments: piano, bass, drums-brushes, guitar!, organ. Simple stride piano, 'smart' guitar voicings, & sax-sec. BGs. T=145 Examples: You Took Advantage of Me, Dinah J!~TEDY2.STY Vintage Jazz - Teddy stride Piano Quartet Memo: A quartet style ala Wilson - stride piano w/ fills, 'smart' guitar voicings (!), acoustic Bass, & Drums with brushes 'Freddy Green' guitar. . T=190.
J!LUSH4.STY Vintage Jazz - Lush4 - St8 MOR - no strs or piano Memo: St.8 MOR Rhumba-Bossa. This variation of L!Lush.sty has no strings or piano. 3 instruments: bass, drums. guitar!, drums-brushes, slow strings. T=100 Examples: Killing Me Softly, You Belong to My Heart J!MANCN2.STY Jazz - Mancni2 - Slow pop bal. var. Memo: Like J!Mancni.sty except bass in '4' at 'b'. Slow, sw. ballad w/ 5 instruments: piano, bass, drums. guitar!, slow strings. Uses 'intelligent' guitar voicings.
J_SILVER.STY Vintage Jazz - Silver - sw.piano trio Memo: 50s bouncy jazz swing trio ala Horace. The 'b' section adds saxes BG. 4 insts:-piano, bass, d. Saxes at b. T=175 Examples: Opus De Funk, All the Things You Are J_STRIPR.STY Vintage Jazz - Stripper - Raucus club Sw. Memo: Boisterous club swing with a big backbeat. 5 instruments: -piano, bass, drums. guitar!, brass. Heavy drum rhythmical figure at 'b' bars 1-4. T=175 Examples: Let Me Entertain You, Hard Hearted Hannah J~BRUB34.
Styles Disk #26: ‘Classic Country’ Introduction and Overview Note: As these styles use some of the newer Stylemaker features, you must have Band-in-a-Box Version 10 (or higher) for these styles to work properly. Once again we have enlisted Nashville session player Mike Harrison to assist with this great new disk for all of our country fans with 26 GREAT NEW Classic Country Styles. These style names speak for themselves.
C_HAGARD.STY Hagard - Classic CountryHonky Tonk Memo: Classic Country Honky Tonk Style ala Buck Owens or Merle Haggard. 5 instruments: - Drums, Bass, Piano, Acoustic Guitar and Elec. Guitar. Tempo range = 100-130 Examples: A White Sport Coat, Bottle Let Me Down, Swinging Doors C_JEANIE.STY Jeanie - Bluesy Classic Country Memo: Classic Bluesy Country style Beat w/ strong Rhythm & Blues influence ala Jeannie C Riley, Billie Jo Spears. 5 instruments: - Piano, Bass, Drums & 2 Ac. Guitars.
C_TAMMY.STY Tammy - Classic Country Ballad Memo: Classic Country Ballad Style ala Tammy Wynette, Ernet Tubb. 5 instruments: - Piano, Bass, Drums, Elec. Guitar Ac. Guitar. Tempo range = 80-105 Examples: Behind Closed Doors, Half A Man C_TANYA.STY Tanya - Classic Country Gospel Memo: Classic Bluesy Gospel Country style ala Tanya Tucker. 5 instruments: - Piano, Bass, Drums, Harmonica & Ac. Guitar. Tempo range = 7085 Examples: Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Yesterday C~CHARLY.
Memo: Classic Country Ballad Waltz Style ala Jack Greene, Jim Reeves. 5 instruments: - Piano, Bass, Drums, Vibes & Ac. Guitar. Tempo range = 70-90 Examples: Tennessee Waltz, There Goes My Everything C~LEFTY.STY Lefty - Classic Country Spanish Ballad Memo: Classic Spanish Ballad Country Style ala Lefty Frizell, Claude King. 5 instruments: - Piano, Bass, Drums, 2 Ac. Guitars. Tempo range = 100-130 Examples: Wolverton Mountain, Ode to Billie Jo C~LEROYV.
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PG Music Inc. Music Software Programs PG Music Inc. is a leading innovator of computer music software that is easy to use, powerful, and fun! Band-in-a-Box (Windows/Mac) intelligent music software Simply select the style of song you’d like to create, and Band-in-a-Box will automatically generate a complete song in that style, in the key and tempo you want, complete with intro, chords, melody, arrangement and solo improvisations.
More great add-on Styles Disks for Band-in-a-Box! Styles Disk #20 - Southern Gospel (requires Version 8.0 or higher) Spiritual music styles, like Jazz, Country and Rock styles, have become extremely diversified these days, running the gamut from Traditional Gospel, Southern Gospel, Contemporary Gospel, Urban Gospel, Praise and Worship, and Inspirational, to Rap, Techno and more. In short, all of the available past and present styles are used.
Styles Disk #24 - Guitar and More (requires Version 10) Over 20 great new styles chosen from our customers’ requests as posted on the PG Music Wish List Forum at www.pgmusic.com. Here’s a tasty mixture of Folk, Pop, Jazz, Waltz, and smooth MOR with lush strings as well as more Latin styles like Cumbia, Salsa, Mambo, and Bossa. Most of these great styles utilize the new “intelligent” guitar voicing feature of Bandin-a-Box Version 10 making them a must-have for any music lover.
PowerTracks Pro Audio (Windows) integrated digital audio and MIDI workstation PowerTracks Pro Audio is a professional, fully featured Digital Audio/ MIDI workstation, packed with features for musicians, students & songwriters.
Master Jazz Guitar Solos PAK Volumes 1, 2 & 3 3-volume Jazz Guitar study set Bonus: all songs are also included as Band-in-a-Box song files. The Master Jazz Guitar Solos PAK contains over 150 songs designed to illustrate basic skills to the beginning guitarist while enhancing the skills of more advanced guitarists. The full contents of Volume 1 plus more than 100 new songs are included in this full-featured interactive program designed to help you learn to solo like a professional Jazz guitarist.
Index ! !, 25, 26, 27, 45 4 44.1K Stereo WAVE files, 53 6 6 channels, 29 A accentuate, 39 Allow Late Notes, 16 alternate, 33 alternate root, 33 audio, 48 audio CD, 12 Audio Edit Window, 48 audio processing, 49 Audio Window Overview, 48 Auto-Substitution, 30 B Band-in-a-Box main screen, 11 Bar/Beat settings, 33 BMP, 23 brushes-kit, 55 Builder, 18, 19 burn, 51 burn.
F filename, 53 Finalize, 52 Finalized, 52 font size, 41 G graphics, 23, 42 graphics file, 42 GS mode-on, 14 Guess Root, 21 guitar chord, 45 guitar chord-melody soloing, 28 guitar chords, 44 Guitar Macros, 16, 44, 45 Guitar Settings, 16 guitar tutor, 16 Guitar Tutor, 27 L late note, 47 lead-in, 50 leadsheet, 23, 43 Leadsheet Window, 43 Lenny Breau, 28 Live Harmony, 39 local, 56 local-off, 56 M Master Tuning, 56 Melody track, 29 Memo, 12 merge, 55 Microsoft DirectX, 49 MIDI THRU, 28 MS Windows Media Audio
R range of bars, 32 Reharmonizing, 30 Rendered audio files, 50 Replay Root, 21 Rock, 28 root, 20, 22, 36 roots, 35 S sample level, 48 Save Quality, 23 scale tones, 36 sequencers, 27 session, 53 slash-note, 20 slash-note", 33 Snap, 48 Song Demo, 55 Song List, 55 soundcards, 56 spacebar, 54 speeds, 13 Staff Lines.
